Top 100 Christina Ricci Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I guess I’m a workaholic!”

— Christina Ricci

2. “Any obsession is dangerous.”

— Christina Ricci

3. “Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul.”

— Christina Ricci

4. “This is my costume. I’m a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.”

— Christina Ricci

5. “Remember who you are. It’s really okay to be who you are.”

— Christina Ricci

6. “I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.”

— Christina Ricci

7. “I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors.”

— Christina Ricci

8. “My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it’s incredibly romantic.”

— Christina Ricci

9. “I’m so glad I’m not 20 years old anymore. I was in a hurricane. I’m a lot calmer now. I don’t cause destruction for myself and others everywhere I go.”

— Christina Ricci

10. “I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.”

— Christina Ricci

11. “I think reincarnation is possible. Hopefully, we all get recycled.”

— Christina Ricci

12. “Naturally, my body language changes given whatever environment I’m in.”

— Christina Ricci

13. “Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination.”

— Christina Ricci

14. “Most people don’t walk around knowing what other people think about them, and I don’t think it’s healthy to know what faceless strangers who you’ll never meet say about you.”

— Christina Ricci

15. “I mean, I sing. But I don’t think I’m a good enough singer to do any kind of musical.”

— Christina Ricci

16. “We might all be so afraid to be who we are, but in the end, it’s really you’re individual, unique qualities that make you attractive to people.”

— Christina Ricci

17. “I tend to fight for something that I believe in.”

— Christina Ricci

18. “I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am.”

— Christina Ricci

19. “It’s Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It’s a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through my oppressive teenage years and when I turned 18 I escaped. Like Aslan I was finally free.”

— Christina Ricci

20. “I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.”

— Christina Ricci

21. “I’m trying to just go with the flow and learn from the people around me.”

— Christina Ricci

22. “I want a Mini-Cooper because it’s fuel efficient, emissions efficient and all that stuff. It’s small and better for the environment. I think that will be my next car.”

— Christina Ricci

23. “Nobody can make me smile like the way you do.”

— Christina Ricci

24. “I’m not perfect-looking and I don’t say the right things, I’m a little different, nothing really special, but I guess I come across as a little more real to people and that comes through on the screen. I know I look young, but with the right make-up I can look older. I definitely feel older.”

— Christina Ricci

25. “Now my body is really womanly – a little too much so. It’s someting I can fall back on. When I don’t know what else to do, I stick my chest out.”

— Christina Ricci

26. “My brother always teases me about my forehead: ‘I could eat off it!’”

— Christina Ricci

27. “I went through an awkward adolescence and had braces.”

— Christina Ricci

28. “I won’t swim in a pool by myself, because I think that somehow a little magic door is going to open up and let a shark out.”

— Christina Ricci

29. “People feel like they have to live up to being perfect or have a perfect life or be perfectly happy, and it just makes them more unhappy.”

— Christina Ricci

30. “I get so nervous. I happen to be socially awkward and shy. I spent a lot of my time as an adult not going places.”

— Christina Ricci

31. “Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I’m very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.”

— Christina Ricci

32. “As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.”

— Christina Ricci

33. “I stand up for other people, I’m very protective of people around me. If I feel like somebody is getting a bad rap or being unfairly picked on, I will stand up for them, absolutely.”

— Christina Ricci

34. “For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn’t have a mirror in my room.”

— Christina Ricci

35. “My sister discovered the Beatles when she was about 11 and I’m four years younger. So we had nothing but Beatles paraphernalia. Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album.”

— Christina Ricci

36. “I think people who suffer from depression, unless it’s post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.”

— Christina Ricci

37. “I am a Christian. I haven’t really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.”

— Christina Ricci

38. “You have to excuse me because I AM a teenager, so I’m allowed to sound illiterate and make stupid comments like ‘I’m not into hard-core feminism.’”

— Christina Ricci

39. “We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society.”

— Christina Ricci

40. “I think I am naturally attracted to things that are a little bit out of this world.”

— Christina Ricci

41. “I take Wellbutrin because I’m afraid to go into stores. I’m afraid people are going to yell at me.”

— Christina Ricci

42. “I certainly hope I’m not still answering child-star questions by the time I reach menopause.”

— Christina Ricci

43. “You always fear when you’re making a movie that has a moral to the story that people are going to reject the idea of being taught a lesson.”

— Christina Ricci

44. “I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like – ugh, you might as well kill yourself.”

— Christina Ricci

45. “I think the main reason a lot of child stars don’t make it is that it’s hard to see someone as cute and then all of a sudden see them as having more depth.”

— Christina Ricci

46. “I think I’m better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that’s something I’m working on now. I’m not really that difficult or complex a person, so it’s interesting to me that it’s just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.”

— Christina Ricci

47. “Well, it’s difficult to fall in love with a character when you just read the pilot. You don’t really know who the character is.”

— Christina Ricci

48. “My roommate and my boyfriend, they both know I am compulsive and controlling.”

— Christina Ricci

49. “I don’t know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.”

— Christina Ricci

50. “I’m getting older now, so I should think about a family, but certainly not tomorrow.”

— Christina Ricci